St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-08
THE HRaSH CAUSE.
ElOquentIy Championed by ParnelI
in the House of Commons.

ElOquentIy Champi oned by ParnelI
in the House of Commons.
LONDON. Feb. TN parliament Parnell
moved his amendment to the address in re-
ply to the queens speech. The amend
ment is as follows:
The relations between the owners and oc-
cupiers OF land i'll Ireland have not been ser-
Ously disturbed in the cases of those who
granted their tenants such abatements as
were demanded by the prices of agricultural
and pastoral produce. The remedy for the
crisis in Irish agrarian affairs will be found,
not in the increased stringency of criminal
procedure or in the pursuit of such novel,
doubtful and unconstitutional measures as
those recently taken by her majestys govern
ment. but in such reform of law and system
of government as will satisfy the needs and
secure the confidence of the Irish people.
Parnell maintained that if the bill for
stopping evictlOnS, which he introduced
last session, had been passed. the condition
of Ireland would have been greatly i'm
proved. The operations of the measure
would have effectually prevented the pres
ent disturbed relations between landlords
and tenants. The blame for the present
serious position of Irish domestic affairs
rested with the government. Despite this,
they seemed about TO renew the mistake of
al NOEIsC1ON
in Ireland. The speaker solemnly warned
the government that if they again tried CO.
ercion they would again fail, as they always
failed when trying such policy. Coercion
would never bring about better state of
affairs in Ireland or assist in establishing
peaceful relations between the two coun-
tries. Cries OF "oh! ohw and cheers
from the Irish members. If the govern
mentS proposed alteration of the criminal
procedure acts meant an attack on the
rights of 1rishmen. the immediate result
would be that Sir Michael HickS-Beach,
chief secretary for Ireland. and the Marquis
of Londonderry, the viceroy, would find
themselves rapidly descending an inclined
plane, and would soon come asking parlia-
ment for more coercion. Sir Michael
Hicks. Beach wished to attack the authors
of the ''plan of campaign" He thought
to crush the plan by muzZling his opponents
and getting them into jail. All past eX-
perence had shown that the work of sup
preston would only begin when such things
were done, for secret coercion would spring
up and agrarian and political crimes would
revive in their worst forms. The govern
ment had already been
GUILTY OF UNPRECEDENTED ACTION
in the manner in which they conducted the
VI OllO.i. lldu UGtll
equally arbitrary in the method employed
to suppress the Sligo meeting and i'll the
adoption of the method of striking off
juries in such a way as to exclude Cath
olics. The speaker asked if any govern
ment could expect a nation, three-fourths
Of the whole population Catholics, would
be content to have no representation of
their faith in the jury trials of their coun-
try. Referring TO the GlenDeigh evictions,
Parnell declared that the landlords gave
the tenants month only in which to
fnd five years. rent. arrears and
costs. The ultimate offer made by
the landlords to take half years rent
looked generous. but the costs involved
amounted to over two years rent The
National league, Parnell continued, never
interfered until the work of eviction was in
full swing AS one who had no response
bility i'll bringing forward the plan of cam
paign, he could speak freely upon it. Many
tenants who now had roof over their
heads would have been cast out upon the
bare hillsides but for the plan. The reduc-
ton in the number of evictions for the last
quarter was manly due to the plan. The
government waited two months before de-
caring the plan illegal. Was it Illegal?
That remained to be seen. In the mean
NlliiO ilO NVtoSiiOo HO " UliO do-
sertion of illegality. The government
talked of robbery of the landlords forget
ting that almost every title to Irish land
was founded upon wholesale
ROBBERY AND CoNFISCATIoN.
The bulk of the improvements made by
the tenants had been seized by the land-
lords, who had long been robbing the ten
ants of the product of their labor and en-
bezzling their rights. Irish cheers. Par
nell went on to condemn coercion as an
Indictment to conspiracy. He taunted the
Tories with the declaration that if they got
powers of oppression equalling those of
the car they would never be able to ad-
minister them under constitutional gov
ernment, nor so long as Irish members had
seats in parliament Cheers. Even
now at the eleventh hour if
the government refrained from
policy of evaporation and stopped
the infiiction of injustice by legal enact
ments and system of repression which
had done more to demoralize Irish tenants
than all The Fenian agitators from New
York to San Francisco, if they would give
Ireland power to do for herself what En-
gland seemed to have neither the wish nor
the power to do, Ireland would show by
her laws tranquility and prosperity; how
unfairly she had been treated in the past,
and how unjust was the assertion that the
Irish were not law-abiding people.
[Cheers.l Mcdonald, Nationalist member
for North Sligo, seconded the amendment.
A Narrow Escape.
LONDON, Feb. From an interview
with Capt. Deane, who was in charge of
Stanley Falls on the Congo river during the
recent successful attack by Arabs. and who
is now in London, it appears that he and
Lieut.. Dubois defended the place until their
ammunition was exhausted. The Arabs
then attacked the place with rush and
carried everything before them. When the
whites found 1t necessary to fly Deane or
dered petroleum poured on the
hnildinr ..and cot a.. Gro n,k,a:z.